scam75
Well-known member
Evening all
Just home from the golf club without the car. Wouldn't start, turns over fine but not interested in starting. Was fine this morning. Swapped the DME relay to no avail, had very little tools, recovery man couldn't start it. So its sitting waiting for a flat bed to recover it to the house.
I suspect the crank sensor. The tacho is bouncing as normal but sometimes when turning over, without starting, the tacho rhythmically bounces its way up to about 3.5k rpm, goes up in increments whilst cranking. 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500 then no higher, the engine certainly isn't spinning at that speed.
I unplugged the crank sensor (I think it was the crank sensor, the higher one in the bracket?), wiggled wires, plugged it back in, no difference.
It could be the immobiliser, which is bult into the alarm, it could also be MAF or MAF wiring related like I've had before but the odd tacho behaviour is focusing me on the crank sensor (or reference sensor). Dunno, baffled.
What are your thoughts chaps?
Cheers
Stuart
Just home from the golf club without the car. Wouldn't start, turns over fine but not interested in starting. Was fine this morning. Swapped the DME relay to no avail, had very little tools, recovery man couldn't start it. So its sitting waiting for a flat bed to recover it to the house.
I suspect the crank sensor. The tacho is bouncing as normal but sometimes when turning over, without starting, the tacho rhythmically bounces its way up to about 3.5k rpm, goes up in increments whilst cranking. 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500 then no higher, the engine certainly isn't spinning at that speed.
I unplugged the crank sensor (I think it was the crank sensor, the higher one in the bracket?), wiggled wires, plugged it back in, no difference.
It could be the immobiliser, which is bult into the alarm, it could also be MAF or MAF wiring related like I've had before but the odd tacho behaviour is focusing me on the crank sensor (or reference sensor). Dunno, baffled.
What are your thoughts chaps?
Cheers
Stuart